SeeClickFix.com of Connecticut has created a great mobile app and website widget for reporting and seeing potholes and other road repair and maintenance issues. Their mobile app is available for iPhone, Android and even Blackberry. SeeClickFix will even create custom branded versions of their app for cities and municipalities.

Here is a sample widget you can try yourself. Once you report that pothole be sure to tell your city about U.S. Cold Patch, the easy, safe and permanent asphalt and pothole patch.

Justin Crabtree, 25, of Obetz, will receive the settlement payout after his attorney alleged that large potholes on a South Side road were a factor in his bicycle crash in January 2006.

Crabtree and his friend, Terry Blake, were riding bikes when Andre Cook tried to pass them in his Cadillac, according to court documents.

Cook passed Blake, but struck Crabtree, who suffered life-threatening injuries and was left a quadriplegic. A witness said Crabtree had to ride toward the center of the road right before the crash because of potholes in his path.

Bicyclists are allowed to occupy the lane to avoid obstacles in the road, according to state law. Cook was not charged with any crime related to the accident, and Crabtree did not sue him.

Legal experts said the city had to weigh several factors in agreeing to settle. A jury would see Crabtree as a sympathetic victim, they said, and the Franklin County Court of Appeals sided with his attorney and sent the case back to Common Pleas court.

In 2009 Kentucky Fried Chicken a.k.a. KFC kicked off a give-back campaign to launch its fresh brand positioning. According to AdWeek;

KFC sent a letter to U.S. mayors today asking them to nominate their cities’ roads to be refreshed. Every pothole filled by the fast feeder will be covered in nonpermanent street chalk with the words “Re-freshed by KFC.”

Jason Vargas of the experiential marketing agency Marketing Werks applauded the effort: “That’s street marketing at its finest. It’s a cool way of breaking through the clutter and building buzz.”

The guerilla/community service effort touts the fact that the chain uses only fresh chicken shipped in weekly. The chain’s head marketer Javier Benito, said in a statement, that this is “a perfect example of that rare and optimal occurrence when a company can creatively market itself and help local governments and everyday Americans across the country.”

At the time of the offer KFC estimated there were about 350 million potholes in the U.S. It appears that this campaign was short-lived and thankfully the Colonel got back to what he does best, making chicken, leaving fixing potholes to the pros, like the ones who use U.S. Cold Patch to safely and permanently repair potholes.

These pothole images are reportedly from Canada and show what looks like a set of nasty potholes placed on the road to slow down fast drivers. The second image shows that upon closer inspection they’re just images of potholes. Very funny.

Some artists got fed up with potholes and decided to take matters into their own hands, literally, by using chalk to create caricatures of the politicians they blame for not fixing them. Too bad these officials didn’t know about US Cold Patch, the safe, easy way to permanently patch potholes.

Activists in Yekaterinburg have come up with a novel way to force their politicians to deal with the Urals city’s notorious pothole problem.

The New York City DOT has decided to bring a sense of purpose and a sense of humor to their lifelong work, repairing potholes with their own tumblr page called “The Daily POTHOLE” with a subhead of “MILL & PAVE.”

An artist who calls herself Julian Santacruz Herrera decided to spruce up some potholes in Paris, France with colorful yarn. Very cheery and bright but not nearly as permanent as a pothole repair made with U.S. Cold Patch. Click on the photo to see her whole collection on Flickr.

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